People,
I have set up Inkscape  0710231640-dw2 and immediately ran into a problem with gradients. It may be something dead simple.
 
I drew a rectangle
I filled it with colour
I set up a linear gradient from colour to white.
I selected the rectangle plus gradient and rotated it.
Both rotated but when I deselected the rectangle went black.
 
Similarly I duplicated the rectangle plus gradient.
It looked good and I moved it.
Still looked good but when I let it go it went black.
The original still had its gradient.
The fill is a liner gradient and the rotate/trnslate button is on.
 
Can someone verify this behaviour or tell me what I am doing wrong? Please tell me I should have switch on that is off or summit.
 
The standard 0.45 release works OK.
 
cheers, Erik
kaver@...45...